Characters who appear in Golgo 13 stories 201-300.
Jacob Potter
An old man who used to be an intelligence officer and then founded a headhunting firm. When his grandson, who inherited a spot in the firm, is murdered, Potter discovers that the killer was linked to a mysterious firm called Clanton Enterprises. He decides to hire Golgo 13 to avenge his grandson, but first he must conduct his own investigation to determine who Clanton's mysterious leader really is.
- Great Detective: Golgo notes that Jacob somehow tracked him down without using any of Golgo's usual contacts. Jacob says that he's a great headhunter and he took it as a personal challenge to 'headhunt' Golgo 13 himself—and he succeeded. Jacob also does a good job investigating the notoriously-secretive Clanton Enterprises.
- It's Personal: He vows to take down Clanton's leader after his grandson is murdered.
- Retired Badass: An old man and former soldier who nonetheless manages to outmaneuver Clanton's forces several times and discovers its secret leader.
- Taking You with Me: Once Clanton's soldiers finally trap him, he uses his last moments to call his maid and explain to her how to convey the target's name to Golgo. Sure enough, even though Potter is gunned down moments later, the maid talks to Golgo and Golgo then kills Clanton's head.
General Peter James Flood
A retired general who went on to lead a think tank called Phaedon Associates. Unknown to all but a very few, Phaedon secretly owns and controls Clanton Enterprises, an ostensible electronics firm which is secretly in the process of overthrowing nations so powerful conglomerates can buy them up and control them.
- Big Bad Friend: He serves as this to his former friend, Jacob Potter, after his men kill Potter's grandson.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Golgo shoots him. While he's in a plane that's taking off, no less.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's the CEO of a company which is working to overthrow governments so the private sector can take over countries.
Katz Double
A hotshot sniper and MIT Computer Science graduate, he is hired by the US State Department to protect the Jordanian ambassador to the US from Golgo. He deduces the most likely spots where Golgo could make a kill shot and likewise positions himself to counter any move Golgo can make.
- Chew Bubblegum: He chews bubblegum and puts Pretty Little Headshots into people.
- Ivy League for Everyone: Was a graduate of MIT's Computer Science Division.
- Sedgwick Speech: Outright discounts a third spot from where Golgo could make a shot because of it being a bad position. Too bad he was facing against a man who's taken risks that have paid off.
- Sniper Duel: Tries to out do Golgo at his game via this.
- Skilled, but Naive: Looks to be on the road to becoming a potential future rival for Golgo... but doesn't take into account the man goes for the least likely spot for a sniping job when he has to.
Miguel Aragon
The builder of a nuclear power plant who also served as its safety director. After politicians and managers rushed the plant's opening, a series of malfunctions and errors brought the plant to the brink of an apocalyptic meltdown which would have rendered Los Angeles uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years. Aragon worked out a scheme to avert the disaster by opening a hole in a stuck ventilation pipe, but the reactor chamber's radioactivity was so high that nobody could get close enough to drill the hole. However, it just so happened that Aragon had witnessed Golgo 13 assassinating another man earlier that day, and so he decided to hire Golgo to shoot the pipe and stop the meltdown.
- Bank Robbery: How he gets half a million dollars to pay Golgo. It helps that the bank (and the entire city around it) have been evacuated.
- The Engineer: An extremely skilled one who worked out a scheme to save the plant.
- While going over the plans, Aragon realized that making the shot would be impossible even for Golgo because the only places in the reactor chamber with a clear shot to the stuck pipe were either too hot to survive or were blocked by equipment. He then worked out a way to build a makeshift platform over a 'trench' in the reactor chamber despite the fact that he only had a few workers, each of whom could only spend about a minute building the platform in the reactor chamber before they would die of radiation.
- By the time the platform was ready, the steam had gotten so thick that the stuck pipe was completely hidden from view. Golgo nonetheless took the shot, relying solely on the plant's architectural schematics to aim, and he hit. Golgo making the shot is a testament both to his skill and to the precision of Aragon's construction, which matched the schematics perfectly.
- Leave No Witnesses: Aragon exploits this trope when he hires Golgo; he doesn't have the usual three million dollar fee, so in addition to the half-million dollars he came up with, he also offers to give Golgo the name of a witness that saw him shoot his target. After Golgo takes the shot and saves the plant, Aragon admits that he was the witness. At this point it doesn't matter, since Aragon has absorbed so much radiation he'll die within twenty minutes anyways, but Golgo still shoots him just like Aragon knew he would.
- Morton's Fork: Aragon's situation once Golgo makes the shot. Either he admits to being the witness and Golgo kills him, or he refuses to give the witness's name, meaning Golgo would kill him for breaking their contract. He chooses to admit the truth.
- One Bullet Left: Since Golgo didn't have access to anything that could penetrate the 30mm-thick pipe, Aragon managed to scrounge up an anti-tank rifle grenade launcher from a gun store owner's private collection. The launcher he found only had a single grenade, meaning they only had one shot to stop the meltdown.
- Thanatos Gambit: Aragon knows that Golgo will kill him once the job is done, since he admitted to seeing Golgo shoot Dukeyper. However, he's willing to die in order to stop the meltdown.
Joseph "Southpaw Joe" Sherwood
A hit man who heads out to a desolate section of Nevada after the death of an old friend. Unfortunately, while he's there, he runs into Golgo 13.
- Career-Ending Injury: Golgo shoots him in the arm to maim him, but doesn't kill him. When Sherwood demands an explanation, Golgo says that Sherwood's bosses wanted to forcibly retire Sherwood but didn't pay enough for Golgo to just murder him. Instead, they paid a smaller price to have Golgo disable him and thus force him out of the contract killing business.
- Hitman with a Heart: He's a contract killer who goes to protect the daughter of his friend, Mickey, from being mistreated by another killer named Sam Curreri. When he guns down Curreri he explains that he wasn't even trying to avenge Mickey (whom Sam had already killed); he just didn't like the thought of Mickey's daughter falling into the grasp of a scumbag like Curreri.
- It's Personal: Zigzagged a bit. While Joe isn't here to avenge his old pal Mickey he tells Sam that he is still going to kill him to prevent him from causing any harm to Mickey's young daughter.Sam: You either keep swimming, or you get eaten. Don't know what he was thinking, hiding in a town like this. If he'd faced the music down in Vegas, he could have had a nice respectable heart attack... instead of a knife stuck into it.Joe: He was always kind of contrary, Mickey. I liked him for that. We stayed friends even after he left the syndicate. But I'm not here to avenge him... he had his time. I dunno... I just can't stand to see his daughter hurt by a shitheel like you.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a dead ringer for Charles Bronson in terms of physical appearance. His motivation for confronting Sam (protecting the young daughter of his dead friend) even calls to mind protagonist Paul Kersey from the Death Wish movie series who began hunting criminals after they brutally attacked his wife and daughter.
- Red Baron: Sam Curreri refers to him by his hitman name "Southpaw Joe" after being shot, though it's more out of mockery than genuine respect, telling him that he's still small time before succumbing to his wounds.
Rico AKA Samuel "Flicker Sam" Curreri
A worker on route 95 who is secretly a mafia hitman sent to whack a man named Mickey. As he soon finds out though, he isn't the only assassin passing through town at the moment.
- Faux Affably Evil: Joe isn't too bothered by the fact that he killed his old friend, but is completely disgusted at how Sam used the man's daughter to get close to him. Ultimately, this is why he guns him down, to prevent any further harm coming to her via Sam's cruel manipulations.
- Psycho Knife Nut: His assassination weapon specialty is knives. He killed Mickey with a stab to the heart and attempts to kill Joe with a throwing knife he pulls from his sleeve.
- Red Baron: He normally goes by Rico while in his civilian disguise but Joe immediately pegs him as "Flicker Sam" the hitman during their first meeting. According to Joe his nickname comes from his M.O. of carefully getting close to his victims before a quick assassination and escape. (A "nice long wind-up followed by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it pitch" at the last second.) The fact he uses throwing knives might also have something to do with it.
Brigetta, AKA "Bloody" Brigetta
A former operative of the infamous Bader-Meinhoff Gang
, Brigitta is outsourced (without her knowing) by Interpol to target her former-comrades in arms. After finding success in jobs against two targets, her handles decide to pit her against a man they believe to be a major source of terrorism around the globe: Golgo 13.
- All Amazons Want Hercules: It seems that even she can't resist getting in bed with Duke Togo himself - even mere hours before the hit.
- Crazy-Prepared: She knows she can't beat Golgo in a straight-up fight, so she organizes an ambush on him that takes place during a sandstorm that would hopefully throw Golgo's aim off. But Golgo anticipated this and brought combat goggles to protect his eyes.
- Crying Wolf: How she plans to take Golgo out - she "hires" him to take out a mob boss who runs a meat-packing plant, then warns said boss about Golgo's arrival. She then plans to snipe him as he tries to fight off against the goons the boss sent to get him.
- Gullible Lemmings: She has no idea Interpol's outsourcing her to kill off fellow terrorists and Golgo.
- In Love with the Mark: To a degree, but doesn't stop her from pushing through with her plans to kill Golgo.
- Interpol Special Agent: Indirectly, but the ICPO seem to have little qualms in being more direct in their efforts against crime in the world of Golgo 13.
- Les Collaborateurs: A former terrorist outsourced to kill terrorists. And she's very good at it.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: She shows no qualms in taking out fellow terrorists, even though she doesn't know her real clients, and is killed by Golgo, albeit not because he was hired to do so.
- The Vamp: Manipulation is her favorite way to take out targets, and she likewise enacts a heavy amount of Xanatos Speed Chess in her plans.
- Villains Out Shopping: She sleeps with Golgo mere hours before the hit.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Why her handlers wanted Golgo dead. They feared his influence and the after-effects of his hits were helping ferment global terrorism.
Ledell Niolavitch
An Olympic sharpshooter from Poland, and one of the world's top 5 snipers. Golgo's target-of-the-week, Bob Stinger, hires him as an insurance policy against outside interference and to kill his old friend, mentor, and business partner Ted Conan.
- Always Someone Better: He is indeed one of the world's best, but as usual, Golgo proves why he's the killer amongst killers.
- Genius Bruiser: Like Golgo, he's got to be. He didn't become an Olympic gold medalist by shooting his mouth off.
- Godzilla Threshold: Invokes this to get a higher pay because he's going to shoot it out against Golgo 13.
- Friendly Enemy: He offers a drink to Golgo during their off-time, but he doesn't know who he was or why he was the area until Golgo leaves.
- Husky Russkie: Polish, but definitely fits the husky bit down to a T.
- Lightning Bruiser: A big man, but quick on his feet and even quicker on the trigger.
- Secret Test of Character: Inverted. He misses three out of five targets when Stinger decides to screen him... only for it to be revealed he used his fifth shot to kill a Mook in the distance.
- Sniper Duel: He and Golgo have one at the end, but it's all over in a few seconds.
- The Hedonist: Loves his drinks, and is at the same time a loudmouth and braggart. He does put his mouth where his money is though, and is a tough enemy to duel against.
Franz Lohengrin
An archduke and the heir to the throne of Charlemagne, Lohengrin serves as a member of the European Union's parliament. After being convinced that German reunification could result in a nuclear war, he tries to hire Golgo to assassinate a man who may bring about that reunification. Golgo turns him down, having already been hired to kill that same man, but then it turns out Golgo isn't quite done with Lohengrin yet.
- Overly Long Name: His partial name is Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Von Habsburg-Lohengrin. Lohengrin admits he has more names than that but doesn't list them. He usually, however, just goes by Franz.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He goes so far as to hire Golgo to assassinate Volkmar in order to prevent a nuclear war. He then helps Golgo escape from East Germany after Golgo gets stuck there, and he even helps Golgo confirm that it was de Groote who betrayed him.
Karel de Groote
The Belgian foreign minister who is elected to the European Parliament. He has a hobby of playing a Dungeons & Dragons - type game with other politicians where they try to role-play potential world events. After a game gone wrong convinces de Groote that a German reunification could result in Golgo 13 starting a nuclear war, he tries to set Golgo 13 up to kill the man most likely to reunify Germany and then be captured or killed himself. Golgo, however, has other plans.- Smug Snake: As Lohengrin points out, de Groote mistakenly believes that he can control Golgo 13 like he could a game piece. Golgo, however, proves resilient enough to get out from de Groote's trap.
- Villain Has a Point: He's not wrong about Golgo 13 having the potential to cause major disasters, as was shown in 'A Fierce Southern Current' where someone exploited his reputed fortune and almost ginned up a major war.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He genuinely just wants to prevent a nuclear war... so he tries to have a man assassinated in such a way that the assassin is also destroyed.
Philippe Moreau
De Groote's loyal assistant.
- Game Master: He serves at this for the political roleplaying games that de Groote sets up.
Volkmar Kruspe
A rich and powerful businessman aiming to reunify Germany.
- Asshole Victim: Though Kruspe's efforts to reunify Germany are depicted as benevolent, de Groote reveals he was in the Hitler Youth and maintains extremist connections. Volkmar also admits that his bank only got so big because he had Golgo 13 assassinate someone.
- Face Death with Dignity: When he learns Golgo is coming to kill him, he simply accepts his fate instead of trying to hide or escape.
Dorje Gyamtso
A top leader in the efforts to obtain Tibet's independence. He opposes the more militant approaches of his compatriots, and when he learns they are determined to cause a murder or a massacre, he resorts to hiring Golgo 13 in order to stop them.
- Insane Troll Logic: The story doesn't shy away from the absurdity of a die-hard pacifist hiring an assassin. Gyamtso explains it as his fear that, should the militant approach work, other Buddhists will abandon the precept of ahimsa (nonviolence) and their culture will be destroyed.
- Murder-Suicide: He hires Golgo to kill his militant compatriots as well as himself.
- Suicide by Assassin: Of the three people he hires Golgo to kill, one of them is himself.
Samdhup Shakapa
An activist who fights for freeing Tibet from China, and who participates in the Tiananmen Square demonstrations to that end. His militant approach clashes with that of Dorje Gyamtso, who worries that a violent attempt to free Tibet would undermine the Buddhist principle of ahimsa, also known as nonviolence. Golgo is thus hired to stop Shakapa.
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Shakapa's plan to save Tibet is to blow up Tiananmen Square.
Thinley Tsering
A leader of the Tibetan Independence Movement. He tries to hire Golgo 13 to execute a Chinese official in order to help the Tibetan cause, which sets off a chain of events he could never have expected.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Golgo kills him.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: His plan for freeing Tibet involves assassinating a prominent Chinese official and arranging for a Tibetan activist, Samdhup Shakapa, to take the credit.
